Hi, I am Valentina Biagini. On July 2017 I attended the Wolfram Summer School in Boston (MA) as a Teaching Assistant. Before that I worked as a Data Science Consultant for an italian IBM Business Partner. I provide support in the whole analytic process, from business understanding to data understanding, developing descriptive and predictive analytics projects using IBM SPSS technologies. I enjoy tackling all kinds of problems and I find new challenges exciting. I earned a Master’s Degree in Theoretical Physics with full grades, at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, my beautiful hometown, with thesis “Inference of local topology of Wikipedia from visits time series“. During my studies I developed a great interest in statistical mechanics, stochastic process, graph theory, networks and complex systems. I studied and worked on developing algorithms and analyzing real systems to extract meaningful information through statistical inference and modelling. Data are always imperfect and the challenges never boring.
On July 2013 I attended the Wolfram Summer School as a student, where I studied what popularity of Wikipedia pages can tell about the network structure. During my Master I worked on networks of proteins, using algorithms on graphs to find hydrophobicity cores in a set of disordered proteins. And I also worked on networks in financial market, studying the correlations between the S&P indices before and after the 2008 financial crisis. For my Bachelor’s thesis, “Graph analysis in terms of k-cores“, I studied the k-cores decomposition of a real network, based on a mapping of Internet. I spent one year at “Denis Diderot” University of Paris, and I took a few years off, focusing on my others great passions: photography and darkroom. During this time I collaborated with the SHL Group (IT), that specializes in employment assessment and testing, and I created hundreds of Physics tests and quizzes for them.
I love spending time in the darkroom (when I can), developing and printing black-and-white photos. I find it like a Zen exercise; as my teacher once said “it is like sculpting the light”.
chaos like home 